Larry MacPhail

Lee MacPhail, a former American League president who was the oldest member of baseball's Hall of Fame and part of one of the sport's foremost families, has died. He was 95.

MacPhail, who with his father forms the only father-son duo in the baseball shrine, died of natural causes Thursday at his home in Delray Beach, Fla., the Hall of Fame announced.

During a baseball career that spanned five decades, the younger MacPhail was president and general manager of the New York Yankees and general manager of the Baltimore Orioles before serving as president of the American League from 1974 to 1983.

Earlier, he spent a decade as farm director and player personnel director for the...

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Lee MacPhail, a former American League president who was the oldest member of baseball's Hall of Fame and part of one of the sport's foremost families, has died. He was 95.MacPhail, who with his father forms the only father-son duo in the baseball shrine,...